The NFL is setting the Eagles up for success

[Cowboys5217]

AC, all I’m saying is I think the Cowboys are a very good team on their own. The eagles are a very good team too. And not because of the refs. Have they benefitted from some bad calls yes? Yes. Is that the only reason they are winning? No.

Yes the officiating in this league is bad. Absolutely agree with that. But just like in real life, the teams winning playoff games find a way to overcome “unfairness”. It’s part of what makes a team great.

How do you overcome officiating like in the Miami vs Philly game where you are not only the victim of bad calls, but the officials are absolutely 100% one sided in the calls and no calls?

If they let your opponent do anything they want while simultaneously having your team under a microscope you aren't going to overcome that. No team will.

 

[Jimbo123]

This is absolutely mind-blowing to this point.

Home Games: Bills, Dolphins, 49ers, Vikings. These were all playoff teams from a year ago, with three of them being top-3 seeds. Also, the first of each of their divisional games are played at home.

Their road games? Patriots, Jets, and Rams (not playoff teams in 2022), as well as Bucs without Brady. They had KC, but there was a home game before and two home games after.

Typically, the No. 1 seed from a year ago has the toughest road. Why does Philly get a break?

Also, I recognize Philly is a well-run organization, a darn good team, and they deserve to beat us earlier this month. Not taking anything away from them. But between the refs favoring them seemingly every game and this schedule, I can’t help but think the NFL is setting them up for success this year.

The Dallas Cowboys Karens need to stop worrying about what others teams do and take care of their own business.

 

[CowboyFrog]

The Dallas Cowboys Karens need to stop worrying about what others teams do and take care of their own business.

lol imagine saying this as a fan of a diferent team on the forum... pot meet kettle....the Philthy beagles fans need to tend to thier own forum apparently it sucks enough you are all here.

 

[KingCorcoran]

I don't know how they determine home and away games for each team but it does seem like the Eagles got a break this year with the schedule. I don't think there is an conspiracy involved. It just turned out the way it turned out. Who know what the Dolphins would be this year?

Dallas got a break too with the Seahawks and Lions at home.

The entire scheduling thing is BS anyway. Every team in each division should play the exact same teams. It is impossible to to with the number of games and teams in the league but it is the only way to have a reasonably fair schedule. The way they do it now with the teams playing opponents who finished in the same place in another division as a means of parity isn't working. The Eagles won the division and played the Viking who are a .500 team. The Cowboys finished behind the Eagles and get the Lions who are a 8-3. The expectation that good teams one year will be the same teams the next has not worked out very often.

The NFL’s intention of having division winners face division winners from the previous season, 2nd place teams face 2nd place teams, etc. is parity. Anyone with a better plan should suggest it. Who knew the Panthers, 2nd place team last year would be this bad? It can work both ways.

 

[Jake]

Another conspiracy schedule thread where the people complaining demonstrate that they don't know the NFL scheduling process.

Who you play and where you play is known immediately after the season and teams post it on their social media.

The only thing that takes months to sort out is what time is kickoff and which network broadcasts it.

 

[MRV52]

This is going to be funny when we derail them in the playoffs should we meet.

 

[TheCoolFan]

The NFL needs their new east coast cash cow to support...now that the Patriots are done, Philly is replacing them. The New York teams will always sell themselves no matter what, regardless if they are a playoff team or last place.

 

[KingCorcoran]

The NFL needs their new east coast cash cow to support...now that the Patriots are done, Philly is replacing them. The New York teams will always sell themselves no matter what, regardless if they are a playoff team or last place.

And how many times has Jerry begged the other 31 NFL ownerships groups to approve moving his team out of the NFC East and into a more geographically appropriate division, like the NFC South, where he could escape the annual association with league “blue bloods” like New York, Philadelphia, and Washington? Between zero and never.

 

[Asklesko]

The league wants the new America's team to do well.

 

[Direwolf63]

This is absolutely mind-blowing to this point.

Home Games: Bills, Dolphins, 49ers, Vikings. These were all playoff teams from a year ago, with three of them being top-3 seeds. Also, the first of each of their divisional games are played at home.

Their road games? Patriots, Jets, and Rams (not playoff teams in 2022), as well as Bucs without Brady. They had KC, but there was a home game before and two home games after.

Typically, the No. 1 seed from a year ago has the toughest road. Why does Philly get a break?

Also, I recognize Philly is a well-run organization, a darn good team, and they deserve to beat us earlier this month. Not taking anything away from them. But between the refs favoring them seemingly every game and this schedule, I can’t help but think the NFL is setting them up for success this year.

Home and road games are based on a rotational basis and preset.

Next year's home and road games are already set. We don't know the teams yet, but the home games are

 

[Kingofholland]

This is absolutely mind-blowing to this point.

Home Games: Bills, Dolphins, 49ers, Vikings. These were all playoff teams from a year ago, with three of them being top-3 seeds. Also, the first of each of their divisional games are played at home.

Their road games? Patriots, Jets, and Rams (not playoff teams in 2022), as well as Bucs without Brady. They had KC, but there was a home game before and two home games after.

Typically, the No. 1 seed from a year ago has the toughest road. Why does Philly get a break?

Also, I recognize Philly is a well-run organization, a darn good team, and they deserve to beat us earlier this month. Not taking anything away from them. But between the refs favoring them seemingly every game and this schedule, I can’t help but think the NFL is setting them up for success this year.

Apparently we had one of the easiest schedules so far, so there's that. . The NFL is such a year to year league its hard to make true projections on who will be good or bad.

The Eagles have been lucky this year with scheduling and timely mistakes by the opppsong team. Perhaps some ref. help too.

 

[erod]

No fan base cries like our fan base.

 

[coult44]

To be fair, while I mostly agree with you, no one expected the Patriots and Jets to be this bad. Especially the Jets with ARod, they were largely considered to be a potential playoff team this season.

I expected NE to be this bad, not NY

 

[john van brocklin]

This is absolutely mind-blowing to this point.

Home Games: Bills, Dolphins, 49ers, Vikings. These were all playoff teams from a year ago, with three of them being top-3 seeds. Also, the first of each of their divisional games are played at home.

Their road games? Patriots, Jets, and Rams (not playoff teams in 2022), as well as Bucs without Brady. They had KC, but there was a home game before and two home games after.

Typically, the No. 1 seed from a year ago has the toughest road. Why does Philly get a break?

Also, I recognize Philly is a well-run organization, a darn good team, and they deserve to beat us earlier this month. Not taking anything away from them. But between the refs favoring them seemingly every game and this schedule, I can’t help but think the NFL is setting them up for success this year.

The teams and home and away games are determined by a formula
Put away that tin hat!

 

[quickccc]

SMH ...

Naah, .. i refuse to let us Cowboys fans turn into Cry Me A River meow whiners as if we need desperate
help from NFL and it's refs to overcome divisional rival Eagles ...
We should be bigger than this, we should be better than this ..

With our next two upcoming counters vs Eagles, we will put it on the playing field, we will control both sides of the trench lines, and we will make the key critical plays that we did not place on the field in the first meeting in a loss.

The road goes thru both Niners and the Eagles come playoff time.

 

[CowboysLakerBamaFan]

You DO know that we just got Thanksgiving at home (as always....other team had to travel on short week, our annual traditionalunfair advantage)... then instead of the NFL giving us our "mini bye week immediately" they gave us another Thursday game , which will allow us to have 10 days of rest before we get PHI at home, immediately after their murderers row games of KC, Buffalo, SanFran....and then after us, they'll immediately need to go out to Seattle?

This stretch the NFL has given us with our yearly "competitive advantage " they allow us to keep at Thanksgiving, and then this 10 day rest before Philly, would be BASHED TO PIECES in here if we weren't the recipients of this favored schedule.

We play the smallest percentage of Away Thursday games (along with Lions) of any team in the league because of it.... and that's the worst type of game to play: AWAY, on Thursday, after you just played Sunday. It's kinda sad we aren't undefeated on Thanksgiving.... we should be

 

[gimmesix]

I don’t disagree in totality Philadelphia seems to have more advantages with the schedule than Dallas, but I think there is some eye-of-the-beholder stuff too. Things that seem better due to Confirmation bias. Like what isn’t mentioned is Philadelphia is playing back to back teams coming off Thursday games who have a week and a half rest when Philly doesn’t (SF-DAL). Both have records this late in the season where they’ve won more than 2/3rd’s of their games. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first time in NFL history a team has had to do that against opponents of that caliber. And then Andy Reid’s bye week record. He was given a home game after his bye, that already is a tough ask, and who is the 1 team on his 17 game schedule that has to play Andy Reid after his bye in KC? Philadelphia.

And then our gauntlet stretch here. Have you ever heard of a team playing back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back teams that could all plausibly win 10-14 games before? It’s trivialized now because we’ve won half of them, but it’s still an insane ask the schedulemakers made.

Every team has challenges, and not everything should be easy for the team that won its division last year. Your team has had some luck on its side, but also has overcome its challenges so far and deserves credit for that. Hope that ends soon.

 

[Motorola]

Another conspiracy schedule thread where the people complaining demonstrate that they don't know the NFL scheduling process.

Who you play and where you play is known immediately after the season and teams post it on their social media.

The only thing that takes months to sort out is what time is kickoff and which network broadcasts it.

And what part of the season the games are scheduled.

 

[gimmesix]

You DO know that we just got Thanksgiving at home (as always....other team had to travel on short week, our annual traditionalunfair advantage)... then instead of the NFL giving us our "mini bye week immediately" they gave us another Thursday game , which will allow us to have 10 days of rest before we get PHI at home, immediately after their murderers row games of KC, Buffalo, SanFran....and then after us, they'll immediately need to go out to Seattle?

This stretch the NFL has given us with our yearly "competitive advantage " they allow us to keep at Thanksgiving, and then this 10 day rest before Philly, would be BASHED TO PIECES in here if we weren't the recipients of this favored schedule.

We play the smallest percentage of Away Thursday games (along with Lions) of any team in the league because of it.... and that's the worst type of game to play: AWAY, on Thursday, after you just played Sunday. It's kinda sad we aren't undefeated on Thanksgiving.... we should be

The league has made a habit of giving us an away game before our home Thanksgiving game to take away our advantage and giving us a Thursday game afterward for the same reason. Notice that San Fran got a mini-bye week as did Detroit, Green Bay and Washington, and they made sure we are playing a team that also played on Thanksgiving to keep us from having as much of an advantage as well. I believe all that came out of complaints over our "competitive advantage" for playing a game that no other team originally wanted.

Having 10 days off before facing Philly is the only advantage that remains, and I'm really surprised that the league didn't make this one at Philly instead of the first game to try to nullify that advantage.

 

[LonnieElam]

No fan base cries like our fan base

The 49ers fan base says hi. In fact, I've never seen an actual team cry as much as they did after the NFCCG, even months after.